What is the letter writer complaining about? You would have paid them dues anyway, right? What do you get from those dues? A few extra dollars an hour?

If the place you are working at doesn’t treat its employees well enough, or pay well enough, that they feel the need to collectively bargain, then I would say that that’s no place I’d want to work.

My job at California Steel pays very well, and they are non-union. No strikes, no picket lines, no union dues. Unions were useful back in bygone days when the current labor laws didn’t exist. Now, they are used to suck every last dime from the companies.

Take a look at Detroit; the city is almost dead. The failed auto industry, once strangled by bloated salaries and ridiculous benefits packages, is now belly up.

Unions were a good idea, if greed hadn’t taken over. To quote one of our company’s employees, “You made your bed, now lie in it.”

And yes, poor people deserve health care, too. Those who can should chip in, or are we so greedy to let others die for a couple bucks a paycheck?